Hi Here's another fun altered art project i made for the guest designer post over at the Lulupu blog :)

It started with an empty conditioner bottle ;)

I covered the whole bottle with scraps from a very old novel ( I got a set of 5 books for 5 rupees in Pondicherry!!) With mixture of equal amounts of PVA glue(i used fevicol) and water.. I find foam brush works best for this..

Then wound a packaging hemp twine around the neck of the bottle giving a good coat of glue to avoid frizziness & seal all the fibres in.. I added gesso randomly over the surface.

I used Dylusions paint (vibrant turquoise, fresh lime) to paint the bottle in random patterns blending all the way with a wet baby wipe.. Added some white gesso splashes.

Did some random stamping With kaisercraft texture stamps (faded dots, geo) & also the sentiment from Inkadinkado stampset with black archival ink..Gave a coat of Mod podge gloss to seal the whole surface & to add that little shine..

For the embellishments, i made the flowers using the paper from the same old book following the classical paper flower making technique.. Inked on both sides of paper using distress inks (mowed lawn, broken china, peacock feathers) applied gel medium (camlin) to seal the ink..Then Cut a spiral out of it with Faber castell scalloped edge scissors & rolled into a flower..

Added a twin bow made of the hemp twine & a metal charm..

The big flower is made out of Papericious Teal Steal patterned paper collection with WRMK flower punch board.. (XS & XXS size) secured with a brad.. For the stem, Stuck green tape around a bendable wire & attached the loop to the brad.. Hence the flower sways beautifully which formed the inspiration behind the quote "Dance to your own music" :D

Saturday, 5 September 2015

Background:
Started with Distress inks (mustard seed, wild honey, spiced marmalade) & did some water splotches to achieve more texture & also used quite a few layering stenclis to build more interest on the bg..

Rakhi:
I started off by drawing a flower & cutting it out of an orange foam sheet.. Layered with yellow circle & a shwastik..
Added some say it in crystals pearl.. I added 3D glitter gold around the petals but unfortunately the gold didn't quite show up & looked mostly like a clear glue..
I cut some gold confetti lying around in my home & added at the back & embroidery twine made into a braided rope..